Daily
IfeBRASKAN
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
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VOL. XXXVIII, ISO. 10
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TLT.SOAY, SKPTKMHKK 27, 1938
Uni Stages
First Convo
Wednesday
Field Museum Official
Views 'Cliff Dwellers'
Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole, assistant
nnvn tnr in the dooartment of an
thropology at the field museum of
natural history in Chicago and one
of thn country's foremost an
thropologists, will appear on the
program of the first general uni
versity convocation in the Temple
at 11 o'clock Wednesday.
This Chicago scientist is known
the world over for his travels into
the little known parts of the
world where he has Been on ex
noditions manv times in search of
information concerning early and
interesting races. Dr. Cole has re
cently made an extended trip
thru Sumatra. Borneo, Java and
the more infrequently explored
tinrts of Malaysia. From his obser
vation of the uncivilized tribes of
these regions, he expects to arrive
at specific conclusions regaruing
the mentality and sociological con
ditions of early man. This trip was
made in the interests of the field
museum.
Dr. Harold Stoke, associate pro
fessor of nolitical science, and
chairman of the convocation com
mittee, made the announcement of
Dr. Cole's coming. Dr. E. H. Bell,
long time friend of Dr. Cole, has
arranged a dinner for the visiting
anthropologist following the Wed
nesdav address.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher, who
became well acquainted with Dr,
Cole while in Chicago, regards him
as an excellent scholar in his field;
a scientist who has the capacity
to present his work in popular and
understandable stylo.
"Modern Cliff Dwellers." will be
the anthropologist's subject for
his address to Lincoln and univer
sity people. Illustrations will be
shown along with the address.
Scabbard and Blade
To Meet Today
Scabbard and Blade will
meet today In room 313 or the
Student Union at 5 o'clock. A
new president will be elected.
It It Important that everybody
be present.
Hurry UP Biff
Cob Pledges
Actives Meet
Rosen Requests Ticket
Money by 5 P. M. Today
Active members and pledges of
Corn Cobs, men's pep club will
meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in
room 313 of the Student Union for
a general business meeting, which
will be featured by first assign
ment of projects to newly pledged
workers.
President George Rosen warns
members and pledges that their
money must have been turned in
by tonight to Louie Anderson,
treasurer of the organization. Only
40 of the 60 odd men connected
with the group had complied with
this regulation.
After talking to John K. Sel
leck. the club was permitted an
extension to 5 p. m. today, by
which time those who expect to
sit with the Corn Cob group,
actives and pledges, must have
thei rmoncy and their identifica
tion cards turned in to Mr. Sellec
at the athletic office in the coli
seum.
Sweaters for pledges to the
group are due about Oct. 5. Rallys
are being worked out for both the
Iowa State game and the Minne
sota game. The Minnesota rally
will be staged at the depot as the
squad entrains, and the Cyclone
rally will be held the night before
the game, Oct. 8.
W.A.A. Signs
40 Saleswomen
Chairmen to Interview
Girls Each Afternoon
Athletic .
Books Go
On Sale
Ticket Deadline Set
For 1 Tomorrow
Reservations for student activity
tickets will be accepted today and
until 1 o'clock tomorrow In Busi
ness Manager Selteck's office in
the coliseum. The drawings for the
tickets, priced as usual at $6, will
be made at 1 o'clock weanesaay
by Daily Ncbraskan Editor Mor
ris Lipp.
As well as the tickets to the
football games, the student books
will also provide admission to the
ten home basketDau games scneu
uled for this winter, and track,
baseball, and wrestling engage
ments. The student section, 5,500
seats, will be located in the center
section of the east stadium.
Students or groups of students
desiring to purchase the ducats,
should present their identification
cards and money for the tickets
at the student activities office In
the coliseum. The office will be
open from 8 to 5 today, and from
8 till the deadline at 1 Wednesday.
In the case of a group wanting
seats together, they may send a
representative with the identifica
tion cards and money of all of the
members of.the group to make the
reservations.
Check Student Tickets.
This year, none of the organ
ized houses will be permitted to
buy more tickets than they have
undergraduate names listed, Mr.
Selleck has announced. Possessors
of the books will also be required
to present their identification
cards at the football games with
their tickets. This is to prevent
outsiders from purchasing student
tickets as has been done in the
nast.
This year a new system will be
emDloved in the selection of seats.
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As the identification caros ana
money from the various groups
and persons are received, they will
be placed in numbered envelopes.
Slips of paper with corresponding
numbers will be placed in a nat,
and the slips drawn out at 1 Wed
nesday afternoon by Morris Lipp,
editor-in-chief of the Daily Ne
braskan. Those drawn first will re
ceive the choicer seats in the cen
ter of the stadium.
New name for Nebraska's head
football coach, drawn from the
above cartoon by Oz Black, should
be Major Lawrence ' Biff 'Eliza '
Jones, for the Biffer who has
never lost an opening game takes
his squad of 1938 Comhuskers
to Minneapolis to meet the pride
of the northlands in one of the
season's most important intersec
tional jousts, next Saturday.
As the above cartoon states,
Biff has never lost an opening
game. Last year, his record was
placed under the guillotine, but the
blade missed the major s neck,
Saturday his head will be in the
"hangman's noose" literally.
Sunday Journal and Stsr.
Nebraska will be represented by
one of the largest football migra
tions ever witnessed, with nearly
5,500 tickets sold thru the uni
versity athletic office alone. How
many have been ordered directly
from the Minnesota university
athletic office, cannot be ascer
tained, nor the number of Ne-,
braska fans from other states and
from Minnesota itself who have
reserved seats.
Special trains, busloads, auto
mobiles, airplanes, perhaps even
motorcycles will carry Cornhusker
rooters to the Minnesota metrop
olis for the big game.
Boucher Speaks
Chancellor Addresses
Feeders Saturday
Dr. C. S. Boucher, chancellor of
the university, will give the fea
ture address at the fall meeting of
the Western Nebraska Livestock
Feeders association at North
this Saturday. The university will
also be represented by William J.
Loeffel, new chairman of the uni
versity animal husbandry depart
ment. Other speeches on the pro
gram will cover feeding and man
agement of cattle, hogs and sheep.
Dr. Boucher will talk on "The
University and Nebraska Agricul
ture." Mr. Loeffel will address the
assembly on "Hogs and Economics."
Musicians
Give Concert
Mr. Cunkle, Miss Eitner
To Make N.U. Debut
'Biff Rates Boys, Boucher
Greets Grads in Alumuns
Forty girls have been signed as
W. A. A. saleswomen for the va
rious concessions at football
games, and at least thirty more'
are needed, according to co-chairmen
Mary Kline and Helen Ko
vanda. Girls will be interviewed
at the W. A. A. office at Grant
Memorial from S to 4 every day
this week and next and also from
11 to 12 on Tuesday and Thursday.
The only requirement necessary
is that the girl be a university
student. Each saleswoman not
only sees the game free but re
ceivea a 10 percent commission.
Tassels Meet Today
Tassels will report their Uni
versity Player's ticket sale of
the day this atfernoon at 6
o'clock In room 201 of the Tem
ple building. It is Imperative
that every Tassel be present to
check In her ticket told and
money collected at that time.
Alumni Publication
Reaches Mail Today
The first Nebraska Alumnus of
the year appears today full of
timely articles, with Major Biff
Jones' own opinion of his football
team heading the list. The official
publication of the Alumni associa
tion also carries the message of
Chancellor Boucher to the alumni
as another of Its leading features.
Biff Jones, In his article "The
Jones Boys," doesn't give out any
promises of having an invincible
team this year, bemoaning the fact
that 8portswriters have been over
rating his team. Ralph Reeder,
editor of the Alumnus, has an ar
ticle on the records of the two
great men who resigned from their
duties at the university this sum
mer because of 111 health, former
Chancellor Burnett, and the pilot
of-Nebraska's trackmen, Henry F.
Schulte. Both left remarkable rec
ords of their , admirable service
here. Burnett succeeded In keep
ing the school from suffering thru
the late depression, and Coach
Schulte has left with a record of
domination of Big Six track meets
and several world's champions.
A very interesting story. In view
of the present European situation,
comes from T. A. Weir '25, now
an engineer for an oil company In
his article, "America Talks War,"
he accuses the Americana with
troubling themselves unduly with
supposed European, war plana
After nine years on the continent,
he says he has not heard as much
talk of European war as he has
on his several Intermittent visits
to this country In the meantime.
"In sum, Americans In my mod
est opinion have been far more
concerned during the past five or
six years over the fate of Europe
than the inhabitant of that pre
sumably doomed continent," he
says.
There are also interesting fea
tures on Barney Oldfield, movie
critic, the relief situation, and the
late William C. Ramsey, one of the
country's outstanding barristers.
This year again, the Alumni as
sociation will print its football sup
plement, the first issue to go out
the Monday following the Minne
sota game. The supplement con
tains the play by play story of
the football games and many ac
tion pictures. It Is sent to members
of the association on the Monday
following every game.
War Scare
Delays Flory
Normandy Soils;
Rhodes Scholars Don't
Harry Flory, Nebraska Rhodes
scholar, was notified yesterday by
Dr. Frank Aydellotte, president of
Swarthmore college and secretary
of the American Rhodes Scholar
ship committee, that his sailing,
scheduled for today, will be post
poned Indefinitely. Dr. Aydellotte
stated that he acted upon the ad
vice of the chairman of the Eng
lish Rhodes Scholarship trustees,
who said the European situation
made it inadvisable at this time.
Flory was one of 32 winners In
the United States who had planned
to sail on the Normandy today.
As soon as possible he plans to
get his A.B. degree from Oxford
university, which is equivalent to
a marten degree from an Amer
ican Institution. Upon completion
of his course, Flory plans to re
turn to America and teach phil
osophy In a mldwestern university.
Frank Cunkle, who will fill Wil
bur Chenoweth's position in the
music school as instructor of or
gan, piano, and composition during
his leave of absence, will be In
troduced to the students Wednes
day when he and Miss Olga Eitner
present a concert in the Temple.
Miss Eilner is a former colleague
of Cunkle's at the University of
Kansas.
Outstanding number of the pro
gram will be Leo Sowerby's So
nata in G minor which was com
posed by the American while in
Rome as the first winner of the
American Prix de Rome in music
composition. Other numbers which
will be given on the violin and
piano by the artists will be Sonata
No. 6 in E major by Handel, and
Brahms Sonata, Opus 100 in A
major.
Some years ago Miss Eitner was
hailed as a sensational child vio
linist in Omaha. She has won nu
merous honors, appearing as a so
loist with the Chicago Rymnhony
orchestra and with the Chicago
women's symphony.
The Wednesday program, which
begins at 4:00 o'clock, opens the
public music convocations spon
sored by the school of music each
Wednesday during the school year.
Frat Board
Acts to Aid
Greek Groups
Suggests Fraternity
Treasurers Bonded
Meeting Monday noon in the
XYZ parlors of the Student Union,
the Interfraternity Board of Con-
twl tahla.l a mntinn rtfnvidincr that
fraternity treasurers should be
bonded, discussed rusning ru'es
with an eye to improving them,
and decided that severe penalties
will be imposed on fraternities
which wilfully delay in giving
their monthly financial reports to
the board.
Clarence E. Hinds, chairman, in
commenting on the operation of
the Board, emphasized that " e re
not trying to threaten the Yraterni
ties in any action. We're asking
the fraternities to co-operate with
our efforts to improve the fra
ternity situation on the Nebraska
campus."
Mr. Hinds summarized the argu
ments pro and con for the bond
ing of fraternity treasurers, say
ing supporters of the measure con
tended that a fraternity, being a
business as far as finances are
concerned, should further emulate
business methods in bonding their
treasurers. As a matter of fact, a
number of fraternities on the cam
pus are now doing this. Many na
tional fraternities have a blanket
bonding system covering all treas
urers of local chapters. And while
there has been no incident involv
ing a student treasurer at Ne
braska, other universities have ex
perienced such unpleasant occur
rences.
Opposing the bonding plan is the
argument that it would be an un
necessary expense inasmuch as
the losses due ta unethical action
of fraternity treasurers are few
and far between.
Discuss Rushing.
A question for present discus
sion rather than any action was
the improvement of rushing rules
in order to increase the number of
pledges. Mr. Hinds said that rush
ing rules are always subject to
criticism and change. The Board
of Control believes that any
changes should be carefully con
sidered, but that no modifications
should be made in opposition to
j undergraduate opinion.
ine general nnanuiHi cuiiuiuum
of Nebraska's fraternities is good.
However, treasurers have been
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Tassels Launch
Into Ticket Drive
For Uni Players
Each Member of Pep Organization Pledges
To Sell 30 Ducats Beore Drive Ends Friday
Materials and instructions for tho University Players ticket
campaign, which begins today and ends Friday, Sept. 30, were
distributed to the Tassels last night at their initial meeting in
the Temple theater.
The Tassels were enthusiastic about the coining campaign
and each girl signed a pledge to
Mrs. Yinger
Assumes
Union Post
New Social Director
Plans More Activities
"I want to make the Union
building a place where every stu-
sell at least 0 tickets.
Altho all previous sales records
have been broken Hie last two
years by this organization, this
year they promise to hang up a
new high. Virginia Nolle, Tassels
president, and Harriet Cummei.
chairman of the drive are con
fident that the organization will
bind every effort to eclipse last
year's record, and pre-season fore
casts are that over 200 tickets will
be sold during the present drive.
At the opening meeting last eve
ning Miss H. Alice Howell, chair
man of the department of speech,
gave a short talk on the selected
dent may come and enjoy himself ; ' 01 Pla' lrom wmcn tne six
at any time of the day," Mrs. ; piunuruons win ue cnosen. miw
Edgar Yinger, the new social di- i considered plays, all of which are
rector for the Student Union said proved successes, are "Judgment
Monday morning. ! Day," "Night Must Fall," "To-
Mrs. Yinger, a graduate of the i night at 8:30,' "Spring Dance,"
Universitv of Nehraska took over I "Classical Play," "French Without
her ditties Monday morning and
immediately set about lining up a
series of activities for student par
ticipation. She feels that there are
a number of students who would
like to participate in the many
recreational activities that the
Tears," "Susan and God," "Bury
the Dead," "The Gieat Divide,'"
"Dodsworth," "Lightnin'," and
"Ceiling at Zero."
Tickets for students and faculty
members are priced at $2 while
persons unaffiliated with the
Van Sant Heads
Chest Publicity
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Lincoln Journal.
Kenneth Van Sant, director of
the new student union building
at the University of Nebraska. Ii
serving for the third consecutive
year as chairman of the publicity
committee for the community
chest's annual financing campaign.
Frosh Orate
For Long Cup
White Soon to
Announce Debate
Trophy Subject
Preparation for the Long Cup
debates will get under way about
the middle of October when, the
subject for argument will be an
nounced, said Prof. H. A. White,
debate coach, yesterday. The date
of the actual contest will be either
Dec. 1 or 8, the first or second
Thursday of the month, giving
contestants about six weeks for
preparation.
The Long Cup is the height of
achievement ' for freshmen debat
ers. It was first awarded in 1928 j
for individual ability in argumcn- j
tation on a selected topic.
It is open to all freshmen men
carrying 12 hours with good stand
ing. Each contestant prepares af
firmative and negative sides of the
question, learning shortly before
the contest which side he will sup
port for the allotted eight minutes.
The decision of the Judges is
based in great measure on oratori
cal ability of the speakers as well
as the soundness of their logic.
Y.W. Opens
Drive Oct 10
Miss Rubnitz Heads
Membership Campaign
With a financial goal of $1,000
the Y. W. C. A. will initiate their
annual membership drive on Oct.
10. Josephine Rubnitz and her fi
nancial staff will be in charge of
the drive.
The finances of the University
Y. W. C. A. are based on fresh
man dues, which are $2 per year,
and upper classman contributions.
The freshman dues entitle a per
son to membership and a vote In
the organizations policies thruout
their four years In university.
Officers for this year are Muriel
White, president, Frances Bold
man, vice president, Mary Jo Hcnn,
secretary, and Velma Ekwall,
treasurer.
Union building has to offer but campus will be required to pay
they stay in the background be-1 The University Players are
cause they do not dance or have celebrating their 23rd year of ac
never played the games which are , tive production with the thought
for student use in the game room, j that they have kept the modern
It is her hope that during the j theater alive and available to stu
school year, she will be able to i dents during a period which saw
arrange classes wnicn win not inc acaui or sucn activities in
onlv teach a student to dance but : many of the nation's colleges:
will also give him the fundamen
tals of the games which are in
use in the game room.
Her present plans are for a ping
pong tournament which wil be held
later. Further announcements con
cerning the tournament will be
made later. She believes that the
matinee dances are one of the
outstanding activities in the build
ing but agrees with student opin
ion in that the dances could be
improved with music furnished by
a student band
Mrs. Yinger will have a desk in
the main lounge of the Student
Union building and she will wel
come any suggestions as to what
can be done to improve the social
life in the building.
Y Group Hears
Mrs. Putney
Oak-wood Lodge Head
Discusses Behavior
Union Sells
Faculty Cards
Adult Memberships
Go on Sale Today
Faculty Student Union member
ship cards will be available at the
Student Union desk Thursday.
Payment should be made at the
Student Union office.
The faculty dining room on the
second floor has been outfitted In
natural colored maple tables and
chairs and can accomodate parties
of various sizes. The faculty
lounge has also been outfitted and
is ready for use.
Matinee dances from 4:30 to
5:30 will be held regularly Wed
nesday afternoons during the rest
of the year. Student Union Direc
tor Kenneth Van Sant announced
Monday. Week end dances will be
Mrs. Fred . Putney, graduate held irregularly at least until
of N. U., will be honorary speaker after the football season closes
at the Y. M. C. A. meeting to be . when they may become more
staged in the Y club room at the regular.
Temple Wednesday night. Meet-1 Should there be a demand to use
ing is scheduled to get under way orchestras for the hour dances a
at 7:15 o'clock,
Mrs. Putney has been supervisor
of Oak wood Lodge for the past
three summers anil during that
time she has gained much expe
rience in working with young peo
ple and working out answers to
their problems.
Social problems which commonly
confront students in college life
will be the subject around which
Mrs. Putney will speak. A discus
sion will follow the talk during
which Mrs. Putney will answer
any qjc.tions in regard to correct
social behavior.
All university men are invited
to attend.
Maestro Gricr
Grades N.U.
Tops in Union
Jimmy Grier, whose band created
a sensation with its "hot" numbers
at the Student Union dance Sat
urday evening, asserts the Ne
braska Student Union building far
surpasses the many others he has
seen.
Making frequent visits to the
grill room, Mr. Grier said he pre
ferred it, although the ballroom
was unusually fine.
Most popular selections of Ne
braska students seems to A Tisket
A Tasket, Now It Can Be Told,
and Alexander's Ragtime Band,
Judging from their request tre-quency
small admission charge to cover
costs will be charged. Cutting is
entirely permissable at all hour
dances in the Union.
Engineers
HearPlotts
CBS Official Speaks
At A.I.E.E. Session
E. L. Plotts of Chicago, trans
mission engineer with the Colum
bia Broadcasting System, will
speak at a meeting of the Uni
versity of Nebraska branch of the
American Institute of Electrical
i Engineers Wednesday evening at
:.iu p. m. In mechanical engineer
ing building, room 206. His topic
will be "Problems Confronted by
the Electrical Engineer in the De
velopment of the P.adio Broad,
casting Industry."
Mr. Plotts is a Nebraska gradu
ate 1928 in electrical engineering.
He has been connected with the
broadcasting industry since 192i
in various rapacities, having serve
W. F. A. B.. K. D. K. A., K. Y.W,
and since 1933 with the Columbia
Broadcasting System. He is in Lin
coln for a few days in connection
with technical problems Involving
the Columbia system and K. F.
A. B.
The meeting is open to all with
special invitation to all students
in electrical engineering.
Students, After Hearing Hitler's Speech, Still Favor Neutrality
Student opinion was apparently
divided yesterday on the question
of granting Hitler's demands for
Sudentenland, according to an in
formal campus poll, conducted
shortly after Hitler's sensational
speech, and while England's dra
matic avowal to aid France, Rus
sia, and Czechoslovakia was but
minutes old.
Concensus of opinion U that
America should stay free of
European struggles; that Hitler
seeks peace: that In the event of
war, England, France, and Russia
will ally against Germany and
Italy, fighting on or near Czccho-
I ova k la.
Joseph Strnad, teventh cousin
of Czechoslovak lan Chief of Staff
Kejcl, and wbo has heard every
Hltlerian speech broadcast this
year, opines that Hitler ta plan
ning a diplomatic retreat from the
situation he la now In, and from
which is Is unable to safely ex
tricate himself.
Strnad aayi Hitler will find the
democratic powers blocking his
demands. That he will wait until
the psychological moment when
the powers are harassed on other
fronts, and then obtain Sudenten
land thru a sudden, decisive
putsch.
According to Strnad, war or
peace will have been decided by
Saturday, The fact that German
monetary reserves will not support
more than two months active war
fare, combined with the fact that
the latest Hitler talk definitely la
less egotistic In tone leads him to
favor a peaceful solution.
Stan Brewster, Innocents presi
dent, interprets Hitler's Interest
In peace as favorable, altho be
lieving Germany la determined to
'get' Sudentenland.
War, according to Brewster,
will be averted, but Hitler's efforts
to expand the relch will continue.
Der Fuehrer must 'keep moving
to insure against revolt, he says.
Third Year Pre-Law Student
Frederick Gilbert also sees Hitler
as meaning business, altho In
terpreting recent moves as evi
dence that Adolph Hitler fears
consequences of war, therefore
does every thing possible to avoid
conflict
That Germany's dictator will
take a war, If pressed, as a way
to save his face In the Sudetenland
dispute, Is Senior Virginia Frum's
view of the situation. She predicts
that win or lone In the Czech af
fair, that Hitler will press for
more power,
Junior Irene Buckley foresees a
turning point toward either a
sudden war or lasting peace within
two weeks, asserting that Hitler
should not have Sudetenland be
cause his claims rest on residence
of Germans sent there with
eventual seizure in mind.
Post Graduate Student B. A.
Finkle says there is no probability
of war before Oct. 1, forecasting
the ultimate adoption of Sudenten
land. Downfall of Germany is pre
dicted by Edward Morgan, fresh
man pharmacy student who sees a
solution of the minorities problem
as the eventual outcome. Engineer
Freshman Max Chemngton also
predicts a downfall of Hitler, but
no settlement of the minorities
dispute.
Another possibility, much dis
cussed, wsa presented by Arts and
Science Student Robert Bugbee,
who believes Germany will be
divided up if war starts, with Hit
ler exiled as another Napoleon. He
believes a satisfactory division
will be made, settling the minori
ties dispute permanently.
Sophomore Harriet Lewis avers
America will not become involved
even after many years of possible
European conflict. Student opinion
is generally crystalized 100 per
cent against American participa
tion in any form in any over seaa
outbreak.
Favored in general opinion la
the belief that Germany will not
fight Forced to the wall by armed
pressure, Hitler is believed by stu
dents to be turning toward a pol
icy of walling for a break not
forgetting the Sudeten territory.
Altho accredited by0iis hearers
to be a masterful speaker, Ne
braskan students felt an undertone
of restraint in his speech.,.. felt
that he was cooly talking wilh
passion to sway the people, rather
than talking from his heait