Daily nTl fin 1HE WEER SKAN Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska 2-408. VOL. XXXVIII, ISO. 16 LINCOLN, ISKIIKASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOHEK 6, 1938 Cornhusker Heads Release Staff List Pub Board 0. K.'s Year Book Appointments The publications board approved staff assignments for the 1939 Cornhusker Wednesday announced Max Horn, business manager, and Pat Lahr, editor in chief. "In checking the list of appli cants," said Miss Lahr, "we found a num- . 1 ber or cancn f 1 dates who were inpiipihlfi for staff positions but who will be workers this year." Assist a n t business managers er the yearbook are Irvin Sher- ru&.,il man, Harry Lincoln Journal. PAT LAHR. Prouty and Roy Proffitt. Adver tising manag ers are Harold oRbbins and Avery Forke, while Wendell Basyg and William Barbour will handle cir culation. Fred Stiner and Orval Hager were announced as the managing editors. Handling the various de partments of the book will be 26 special editors. Mary Frances Wittera has been appointed senior editor, with Louise Malmberg as assistant. Wilemena Erickson and assistant Jane Shaw will be in charge of the junior section. Fraternity and sorority editors are Ralph Reed and Tess Casady respectively with Assistants Carl Harnsberger and Betty Mover. Mary Kline, assisted by Alice Blaufuss, is the new editor in charge of women's organizations, (Continued on Page 2.) Ag Observes Poultry Day Fowls Receive Honor Today; Hogs Friday Poultry Field day, featuring the experimental progress made in furthering the growth of poultry, will get under way at 10 o'clock this morning under the direction of Prof. F. E. Mussehl. The formal program will be in the morning sind the tour of the various experi ments shown on poultry farm will begin at 2:30 this afternoon. Among the experiments to be shown this afternoon will be a trst determining he relative amounts of vitamin A found In different sorghums. Also the prac tical use of concentrated food for poultry, deevlopd here at the uni versity, will be shown with turkeys. Statistics have already proved its worth. The advantages of asphalt emulsion floors and roof repair will be demonstrated. How the poultry industry has grown from a "pin money" busi ness to a "mortgage raiser" will be shown in a talk by Mrs. E. J. Polniclty about profitable farm management processes. Other talks are scheduled thruout the morning and afternoon. Professor Mussehl states that since the fowl supply is better then in the past much more inter est is being shown in correct and effective methods of raising poul try. He also said that the work (Continued on Page 2.) r U4" - ill n't) Huskevs Chorus Approval Of Training Table Meals Gridsters Have First Eat Session Wednesday Cornhusker football players ate their first.jrieal at a training table Wednesday efening in the Ktuient Union. The diet was balanced, the calorics were counted beforehand, the servings were plentiful, and belts surrounding athletic circum ferences were si retched. The new conference ruling al lowing expenditure of $1,000 dur ing ths year for a football training table took eatable form but eve ning in the Student Union and As sumed athletic shape half an hour later. Football players were unani mous in declaring the excellence of the repast. "Boy, I'm telling you 1 never paw so much good food in my life," chortled Hermie Ilohrig aftc. the meal. "There wag so much food on the plate you couldn't put a Un..a and fork on it," said Harry Hupp, and ddel in still somewhat awed tone: "And then they gave us a serond helping. Coach Adolph Lewandowski warned Mrs. Quisenberry. the Stu dent union's vice president in charge of calories and vitamins, that the gridiron huskies could n't be fiil'-d with Just one plateful of food. Consequently, seconds were supplied all those who clamored for them. "But you can sty in the paper," said Bill CaiJihan contcnedly. "that it was the f;rst time I've ever seen a football player so full that he turned down a second helping." "The ieal was swell," was Charlie Erock's wholehearted com ment Best Yet "A better mesl thajj we ever hn4 before, including th ones we had on trips, declared Marvin Committee Hears Figures on Bookstore Group Continues Probe After Analyzing Survey The University senate commit tee in charge of probing campus textbook problems analyzed tne questions raised in a student sur vey conducted by Prof. W. A. Spurr's statistics class and heard Charles DeFord, manager of the Regent's bookstore, at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The committee discussed the questions raised by students in the survey and announced at the close of its meeting that a further in vestigation will be made. Charles DeFord, manager of the Regent's bookstore, told the spe cial committee that the bookstore was even violating regulations set down by the Student Council when it created the agency. Instead of making the 25 percent margin on all used books that we sell, DeFord said, we have cut down to a 15 percent margin to compete with privately owned bookstores. At this rate the bookstore can still be self supporting, yet we are not in keeping with the Student Coun cil's provisions. 20 Percent Mark-up. The Regent's Bookstore man ager also said that his agency was marking new books at 20 percent above cost, as required in the council provisions establishing the bookstore. "Tho it has slight inaccuracies, Prof. Spurr's student investigation shows clearly the student senti ment," Prof. Clifford Hicks, sec retary of the committee said. The survey by the statistics class showed that students favored (Continued on Page 2.) Fellman Foresees Ra ce To Rearm in Europe Munich Accord Results! ... kin in Armistice, inot reace Armistice and not peace was the result of the Munich accord reached by Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain as the socalled solution to the Czechoslovakian crisis, in the opinion of Dr. David Fellman, who addressed the stu dent council sponsored forum yes terday. "The fundamental causes of wai are still there, and the world now will see a real armament race,'' stated the political science instruc tor. "I do not believe that the set tlement means peace, nor does Daladier or Chamberlain." He then read from a newspaper story tell ing of Great Britain's renewed armament program designed "to keep the peace established at Mu nich" even to the point of consid ering conscription measures for the first time in its history. Tracing the background of the present situation in central Eu rope, Dr. Fellman stated that it was open to question whether th? Germans or the Czechs first occu- Plock. (The reader must now re call that the Huskers have demol ished food quantities in the best hotels in the east, west and midd west to see that Plock's statement is no idle compliment. I "Don't hit me in the stomach," cautioned Bud Cather, as the re porter approached. It was self-evi-dent that he approved heartily of the training table. Keen, fine and swell were adjectives applied to the meal by Bus Knight. "It was a good quiet meal," was Bill Andre son's reply. "We aren't supposed to talk about anything', (Continued on Page 3.) "N" Club Plans Annual Luncheon Lettermen to Liven Huslcer Cheer Section Approximately 100 member and oil of the coaches turned out for the regular meeting of the "N" club Tuesday night During the meeting, plans were made and special committees appointed to make preparations for the annual dub luncheon which will be held later. .f rLL,3dl"' " feature cf the meeting.. The club1 iul pu' tome new We into the Nebraska cheering section, according to Bob Ramey. president Ramey was appointed at the "N" club repre-1 tentative on a 'committee which -.. uum uTO iui urw iran leaders. The club will mee t again on Oct 29, at which time, they will initiate all new members. Forum Open With Social Work Today Freshmen to Attend Guidance Series First of a series of vocational guidance forums opens this after noon in Social Science from 3 to 6 o'clock. The topic for discussion will be social work. In charge of the forum will be Mr. C. F. Mc Neill, executive director of the Omaha Community Chest; Miss Mildred Biklcn, state case work supervisor, and Mr. Philip Vogt, field supervisor of state case work. The discussion will be designed to give students interested in social work an idea of qualifications and requirements needed to enter the field. The panel members are leaders in social work in Nebraska and are well qualified to lead the dis cussion. Mr. McNeill, director of the Omaha Community Chest, has had a very successful career in social work. He was graduated from the University of Ohio only a few years ago. He was formerly director of all Douglas county re lief work until that agency was discontinued. Miss Biklen has been engaged several years in Y. W. C. A. work. In 1932 she was appointed direc tor of case work in Lancaster county. She was later appointed case work supervisor for the en tire state. Mr. Vogt is also a field supervisor in charge of case work. He was formerly in charge of the St. Louis relief bureau. All students and especially freshmen are invited to attend these forums. Round table discus sions will be held on several fields and types of work. BARB HOUR DANCE SET FOR SATURDAY Second of the Barb two-hour dances, scheduled by the Barb Union for Friday evening, has been postponed until Saturday evening, when it will be held from 7 to 9 i nthe Union ball room. meJ the disputed territory both claiming the honor. The first real struggle between the two groups began after the revolution of 1848, when the Czechs participated in the Tan-Slavic congress at Prague and the Germans sent representa tives to Frankfort. In the World war, when it be came apparent to the Czechs that the central powers were doomed to defeat, they deserted Austria for the cause of independence. "The allied powers had some trou ble motivating their activity in the war, but eventually they made the independence of the Czechs one of the aims of the conflict," declared (Continued on Page 2.) Corn Cobs Plan Novelty Sales Pledges Receive Duties at Rallies and Games Corn Cob Actives and pledges held their regular meeting last night at 7:30 in room 313 of the Student Union, committee chair men outlining duties for workers to fulfill before anil during all football games and football rallies. Pennants, football buttons, game flowers, and various kinds of nov elties for football fans will be sold exclusively by Corn Cobs be fore games this year, according to President George Kosen. Corn Cob workers will be given a chance to earn points toward ad mittance to the club bv turning out Friday afternoon in the Fast stadium to help decorate the plat form on which speakers at the rally will take their turns. Other work for pledge will also be necessary Friday afternoon in order to prepare the stadium for the rally. Language Lab Contest Ends Decoration Entries Due at 5 Tonight All plan for the decoration of the newly ope-ned phonetic labor atory in room 7 of University hall must be submitted to the romance language office, V hall 108, by o'clock tonight to be considered in competition for the prizes to bo awarded to the best idea entered by a French, Spanish and Italian student. The plans must Include detailed suggestions for decorating the room in a combination of Kronen, I Spanish and Italian atmosphere I The room is to be used daily for . . j . romance language., and for lmnrov'J1r nron.moi.V.on hv ih. use of foreign language record, For! broadcast, will be brought ln c the Urge radio-phonograph now Installed. y All entrie. will be Judged by a faculty committee consisting of ur, naenz, ur. Willi, liowen, Jo' epn Frank and Jean Tilche. Thev will be Judged on the basis of clev erness and originality, artistic iwrit and economy of execution. Student Union Program Thursday. Sigma Delta Chi meeting, Parlor X, 12:00. Pi Mu Alpha, Parlor Z, 2:00. Coed Counselors, group party, Parlors X, Y, Z, 4:00. Fwhion Rehearsal, Ballroom, 5:00. Gamma Alpha Chi, 313, 5:00. Sinfonia, Parlor, 12:00. Christian Science meeting, 313, 12:15. Uniom Secures Sullivan, Close, Durant, for Lecture Series Upton Close to Open Lecture Slate Tuesday Bringing such nationally known figures as Upton Close, Mark Sul livan, and Will Durant to tho Uni versity, the Student Union will open their "celebrity scries" on Oct. 11. Mr. Close will address the Student Union audience next Tuesday and will deliver his famous lecture, "Japan Challenges the World." The talk will be given in the Student Union ball-room Tuesday at 7:30. Admission will be 2")c. Other well known speak ers will be presented during the school year. Mr. Close is the author of seven books and more than 1,000 maga zine articles. Close, whose name is not Close at all, but Joseph Wash ington Hall, won his spurs and his well-known non de plume in China as an operative for the American intelligence service. It was a code identity phrase and came from his habit of being "up close" to the fighting line. Since then he has lived and traveled all over Asia. He has at times been barred out of both Coed Groups Meet Tuesday Misses Piper, Clark to Meet Frosh Girls Muss meeting of Coed Coun selors activities groups for all freshman women will be held next Tuesday night from 7:00 to 8:00 in Ellen Smith hall, a postponement from tho Wednesday night meeting formerly planned. All girls inter ested as well as those who have already signed for hobby groups are expected to attend. Miss Elsie Ford Piper and Miss Letta Clark, sponsors of the Joed Counselor board, will be intro duced, as well as the leaders and sponsors of each hobby group. Time and plate of the meetings will be annouced. Charm School will meet regu larly, undi r the l, aaer.hip of .w.ii.ij in, and Board ith. on the ucfdays of I Helen Catherine Davis and Board Sponsor Elizabetli Sm second and fourth Tu each month. Its first meeting, in order not to conflict with the inas meeting, will be held on the third Tuesday, Oct. 18. to he followed by its second meeting on the regu lar date, Oct. 25. Ixd by Tex Rozelle Hounds, with Faith Medlar as board spon sor, the Dramatics g'oup will meet reguhiily on the fust and third Tuesdays of the month, beginning! next week. The Scrapbook Cor- 1 ner will meet on the same cUys, ' under the fponsorsnip or .Mary Charlotte Utt is its Bullock, leader. Tap Dancing devotees will con vene on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, led by Mary Khne and sjxjnsoied by Board Member Fern Steuteviile. Knitting fans will meet under Jeanet'.e Oeist and Sponsor Maxim.- Lake on the first and third Mond.ivs. Burdcll, Sauchek Head Lawyers Junior and Senior Law Classes Elect Officers Charles Burdell, senior in Law college, and P.ua.vll Sauchek. Jun-1 ior, were elected to head their re fpective classes for the coming year, it was announced yesterday following the election of class of ficers In the Law college. A Misting Burdell In the admin istration of the senior da for the coming year will be Bill Cam ten a vice president, Breta Pe terson a secretary, and Chauncey Barney a treasurer. Alfred Maust and James Nelson won the cov eted positions a senior represe-nta-tives in the Law association for the corning year. Senior song leader will be Duanc Vance. After a heated election, Allan Smith was elected vice pretiident of the Junior while John Dudgeon and Eernard Smith will hold the position of secretary and treas urer for the class. Martin Krlk and Bill Clineburg will represent the Junior In the Law n-w iatlon. Elof Blixt will be song leader. Scrapbook Group P.'ans Work Tonight Coed Counselors Ecrapboolc Cor ner, led by Charlotte Utt, will meet tonight at 4 o'clock In Ellen Smith hall. The hobbyist will plan project for the year, discussing what type of scrapbook will be made and what charltie they will further. Coed Counselor board member sponsoring the group is India find Japan and has been un popular among certain propa ganisitic circles in his own coun try for telling things which offi cialdom was not ready to reveal. His book, "Challenge Behind the Face of Japan" was an accurate V. : !, ; a jk, : UPTON CLOSE. I.inrv.'n Journal. WILL Dl RANT. ... i . , . Mix Peace, Politics ' . Hinson Describes Law Making Angles Tonight Harold Hinson, four years an V' observer of Washington politics, I George Wicbus'ch and Carlos Scha will describe some of the unusual ' per. angles of legislation in the na tion's carital for a meclirr of the Peace Action committee tcniht at the Unitarian church at 12th and H. Mr. Hinson has been secretary and assistant to Henry C. Luekey, Nebraska's representative from the First district, for two con gressional term. The rdate of officers which will be voted upon during the evening is chairman, Meredith Nelson, vice chairman, Arniolcno McKay, sem-t.iry, Mrs. Don Misner, li ens ure r. Harold F.bcr, social chair man, Ixiui.se Lornax, public rela tions, Ia-o Sondereggcr and pub licity, Kllmvorth Steele. UNCLAIMED PICTURE VOIDS REGISTRATION Pictures mutt be attached to identification cards before own ers of student athletic books will be permitted to enter the stadium Saturday. Identification pictures must be called for by Nov. 9 or the registration will automatically be cancelled. iYeit; York Times Cily Editor Discusses His Profession, His College in Interview Raymond McCaw Sees' KJ J f CJ vcu ivi huuiunuii By Merrill Englund. is hhort, stocky, and He built well- Hi eyes are dark ond keen, his hair is black, and it is graying a little at the temples. He wear his clothes well, and moves whji ine Krn-roniroi r,r nn 1 athlete. His voice is soft and j ln:'1 s ''st- "',;,y we want coi smooth; yet it has an edge. ''"W m0"- We don't hire anyone He even looks like a city editor. Ho is Raymond McCaw, city eaiw cz tr.e ew York Times. Corn in Nebraska, three years a student at this university, one- j the drunks who slept on the city time assistant fports editor of the ; desk are gone. Now we have the Daily Nebraskan, onetime reporter ! new newpaperman not that he for the Lincoln Journal, his rise 1 won't take a drink, but he's tem attesti hi ability. j perate, alert, wll-educated." Met yesterday afternoon In the -Who hire your reporters and Lincoln hotel, Me-Caw was quick 'desk men?" to arifwc r questions, eaeer to hear of (hfingcs at the university, clever in In comment on his profession. "Air. McCaw," we asked, "How Student Council Sets October 25 For Fall Election prediction of Japan's onslaught on China. Possessing one of the best radio voices in the country, he f re Thomas, popular i- a d i o com quently substitutes for Lowell mentor. He ranks with Dorothy Thomp son as Town Hall of Air Speaker. 10,000 rnd'o listeners bought published copies of his speech. His engagements last sea son varied from the National In dustrial Conference Board and Pennsylvania Banker's association to Leagues of Women Voters and Knife and Fork Clubs over the country. At present he is doing a text book history of the world for American high schools giving em phasis to the Americas, the Pacific and institutions that surround the young Americans. In conciseness, virility and charm of speech he ranks among the top few American speakers today, and is in request by the most particular and important or ganiaztions in tho country, from scientific and professional bodies to social and entertainment groups. He attracted considerable atten tion in a recent lecture in -which he referred to England's Corrigan like policy in this way, "Britain is a Christian nation always ready to turn some other victim's check." Law Bulletin Goes to Press Quarterly Begins 17th Year as Bar Journal The Official Journal of the Ne braska Ear association, a bulletin edited by the University of Ne braska law students, went to press Wednesday morning. This bulle tin appears four times a year and contains articles by many of the prominent lawyers and law pro fessors in the mid-west, along with a series of small articles which are written by the advanced students in the law school. This is the 17th year of publica tion for the journal. It was founded by Professor H. H. Foster, who is now dean of the Law col lege. The present faculty editor is Professor E. Orfield, of the Law college. The staff which Is selected en iweiy upon ine n .'hip is headed by ! Burdell as assists tirely upon the basis of scholar ship is headed by Breta Peterson mon and Charles nt editors. The rest of the staff is made up of juniors and seniors. They are as follows: Seniors: Lewis Henderson, Dunne Vance. Chauncey Barney, Harm Hnllnrf t.'lrt,r c,.'rtA,.iA Junior: A. Smith, W. Wvllmore. E. Green, T. Berry. W. Chene'oerg, A. Little and J. kronen. The bulletin is issued to every lawyer in Nebraska and is even used by the Nebraska Supreme Court in forming the basis for some of its decisions. It can be found in any law library and is used extensively in class work here nt the University Law col lege. Math Students Hear Durbin at Seminar Dr. D. M. iJirbin will stmt a M-iics of seminar talk in ni a l n e m a i i c s on the "The- ory of Algebra '' today. I These lecture will be held the first and third Thurs day of ea h month in room 302 of M. A. hall at 2 p. rn. All inter ested are urge,j to conic and espe cially graduate students. Dr. Dirbin is a new instructor ! In mathematics this year. He has hi doctorate from the University of Chicago and ha been a national .research fellow for two years. nU,ut ucMion in preparation for ,a career m journalism: is it necessary?" Education. "Educ ation,' he shot back, "is absolutely iiecesxiiry in the news - nuixT came. It Used to l.o Ih.-.t . -i--.,. .... fiMii; ,, nit- facts and the story would be writ ten by someone else the reporter needed no education for that. But ' uul - mcn There i different type of newspaperman today. The old i rummies ucd to be plentiful. But "The editor ond we pay plenty of attention to schools of Journal ism, too. Each year, we take two graduates from Columbia but our Voters Choose Junior, Senior Class Leaders Colonel, Sweetheart. Fall election day was set for Tuesday, Oct. 25, by the Student Council in its meeting yesterday. The date has been purposely de layed in order to give students time to get their pictures attached to identification cards. Junior and senior class presi dents, honorary colonel, and Ne braska Sweetheart will be chosen at the election. Filings may be made the week previous to election day, from Tuesday, Oct. 18, to Fri day, Oct. 21, at 5 o'clock. Harold Benn, Student Council president, stressed at the meeting that identification cards and pic tures positively will be required of all persons voting. It is hoped to secure two adjoining rooms In the Union for the election, the plan being to thoroughly check identifi cation in one room and then allow only duly endorsed voters to enter the other room and cast their ballots. Phyllis Jensen was elected new hold-over Council member from last year to fill the position left vacant when Eva Jane Sinclair failed to return to school this year. Barbara Selleck was elected new Council vice-president in place of Miss Sinclair. Catherine Bullock was named to the Council to fill a vacancy aris ing from the withdrawal from school of Lucille Anderson, who (Continued on Page 2.) Student Poll Selects Books Union Library Board Functions Next Week In an effort to determine what books should be purchased with a donation of 1,000 given to the Student Union library by J. C. Scacrest, Lincoln publisher, the Union library committee, headed by Helen Elizabeth Claybaugh, will poll student literary taste. Sometime next week, a box will be posted in the Union lobby to receive lists of student preferred books. The library committee asks students to name not only specific titles but also general types. A ballot for this purpose will appear in the Daily Nebraskan when the poll opens. The committee expects to pur chase approximately 500 books, all in attractive editions, through the university library. P.obert Miller, head librarian, is acting as adviser to the committee. In connection with the poll, tho library committee is sponsoring a contest to select an attractive de sign for a book plate to be placed in all volumes of the Union li brary. Another contest to select a prefatory paragraph or poem for every book, requesting the reader to "handle with care," may also be opened to students. Class Hears Erck Lutheran Minister ' Discusses Alcohol Members ci the Lutheran Piibi class will herir Rev. Henry Erck in a talk on "What Does the Bible Say Abut the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Beverages?" tonight in Boom 203 of the Temple, ln his talk. Rev. Kick will bung out the I f:i!-1 1h:.f t,l,--,hr.li, t..iA I,-- U ! ....i not .sinful. That tho Bible do- nonm-i- fli-nninnA. v,.. -.-..i t.. will be ore- of the main tonics r,f his discu.sion. There will bo an open discussion on the question, "What Is the Atti tude of a Christian Toward the Use of Alcohol?" Thruout the meeting, Bible references will be used. The Bible class meets regularly on the first and third Thursday of each month from 5 to 6 o'clock in Room 203 of the Temple theater. men don't have to come from th larger schools." rger schools." A Woman's Nace. "What about women's place in Journali.vm?' ! "Absoluteitf , . P.'y Pln tor wuiiiLTi. i(i niy in the veomen'a department, but everywhere. Two or our hest staff member-one an editorial writer, and the other an assignment reporter- are women. You'll never find them on the ropy desk, though that's because there cne woman would be working with ten or twelve men, and It ml;ht be quite s Job to get the men to concentrate on their work. As far as feature writing ami reporting go, they're just as good as men,' Off we went on a tangent. We found out that his newspaper ca reer began at the age of 14 when he became the proud possessor of a correspondents card from the old St. Joseph Gazette. We fol lowed him up; through the Dally Nebraskan, the Lincoln Journal, ti (Continued on Page 4.) ft